Improvement in weight-motors



A. BARKER. 'WeightMOtOr.

No.'2o1,' 4s2. Patented March 19, 1878.

' 'WITN EE INVENTOR QV W 3 ATTORNEYS.

Nv PETERS, PHOTO-LITHOGRAFHEQ. WASHINGTON. D C.

UNITED STATES PATENT QFFIGE.

I ARNOLD BARKER, OF BLOOMFIEL D, IOWA.

IMPROVEMENT IN WEIGHT-MOTORS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 201,482, dated March19, 1878 application filed September 1, 1877.

To all whom "it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARNOLD BARKER, of Bloomfield, in the county of Davisand State of Iowa, have invented a new and valuable Improvement inMotive Powers; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,clear, and exact'description of the construction and operation of thesame, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of thisspecification, and to the letters and figures 0 reference markedthereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a representation of a side elevation of mymotive power 5 Fig. 2, an end elevation, and Fig. 3 a side elevation,thereof.

The nature of my invention consists in the construction and arrangementof a motive power for running sewing-machines, churns, washingmachines,and other light machinery, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

The annexed drawing, to which reference is made, fully illustrates myinvention.

A represents the frame-work of the machine, in which is a shaft, B, withband-wheel O, for connection with the machinery to be driven. On thisshaft is a pinion, a, which is driven by two master-wheels, D D, mountedloosely upon two shafts, b, having their hearings in the frame A. Uponeach shaft b is secured a double drum, G G, provided with aratchetwheel, d, into which takes a spring-pawl, e, on the master-wheelD.

Upon the drum G is wound a cord, f, which passes upward over a pulley,E, and has a weight, H, attached to its end. On the drum G is wound thewinding-cord i, which passes upward over another pulley, E, as shown.

By pulling on the two cords ii the double drumsare rotated, so as towind up the cords f f, with their weights. These weights then run themaster-wheels D D, and these, through the medium of the pinion a, impartmotion to the shaft B and band-wheel 0.

Instead of weights, the master-wheels may be driven by spring-power, ifdesired.

On one end of the shaft B is secured a pinion-verge, h, upon whichoperates an intermittent lever, I, pivoted to the frame, and kept incheck by a spring, J.

If it take, say, twelve pounds of power to run a machine connected tothis power, I add three or four pounds more to keep the power moving,and then I have only to govern this extra power.

By means of the double gearing the speed is materially increased.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, i s

In a motive power, the combination, with the center shaft B and itspinion a, operated by the two master-wheels D D, having independentoperating mechanisms, of the verge h, intermittent lever I, andcheck-spring J, all constructed substantially as and for the purposesherein set forth.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my namein the presence of two witnesses.

ARNOLD BARKER.

Witnesses F. A. DUTFFIELD, WILLIAM VOTAW.

